Online interactive assessment with short free-text questions and tailored feedback

e-Assessment for learning? The potential of short-answer free-text questions with tailored feedback

A natural language based system has been used to author and mark short-answer freetext assessment tasks. Students attempt the questions online and are given tailored and relatively detailed feedback on incorrect and incomplete responses, and have the opportunity to repeat the task immediately so as to learn from the feedback provided. The answer matching has been developed in the light of stude...

Automatic Assessment of Short Free Text Answers

Information Extraction and Machine Learning: Auto-Marking Short Free Text Responses to Science Questions

Traditionally, automatic marking has been restricted to item types such as multiple choice that narrowly constrain how students may respond. More open ended items have generally been considered unsuitable for machine marking because of the difficulty of coping with the myriad ways in which credit-worthy answers may be expressed. Successful automatic marking of free text answers would seem to pr...

Clarification Questions with Feedback

In this paper, we investigate how people construct clarification questions. Our goal is to develop similar strategies for handling errors in automatic spoken dialogue systems in order to make error recovery strategies more efficient. Using a crowd-sourcing tool [7], we collect a dataset of user responses to clarification questions when presented with sentences in which some words are missing. W...

Improving Refill Adherence in Medicare Patients With Tailored and Interactive Mobile Text Messaging: Pilot Study

BACKGROUND Nonadherence is a major concern in the management of chronic conditions such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes where patients may discontinue or interrupt their medication for a variety of reasons. Text message reminders have been used to improve adherence. However, few programs or studies have explored the benefits of text messaging with older populations and at ...